16 examples of fainting-fit in sentences

I hope that cares and fainting-fits may swell Him out, and yellow he will straight become As yellow as a carrot in a field.

In the presence of all these charges, there stood Miss Caroline, dumb, stupid and careless; nay, when the fainting-fit came on, and Mrs. Gann fell back on the sofa, the unfeeling girl took the opportunity to retire, and never offered to rub her mamma's hands, to give her the smelling bottle, or to restore her with a glass of water.

Long and short make it all,and wherever long and short can be combined, be it in marks, sounds, sneezes, fainting-fits, canes, or children, ideas can be conveyed by this arrangement of the long and short together.

He lifted her in his arms and carried her out, and for the rest of that day my Aunt Ann, that "hard and unsympathizing woman," passed from one strange fainting-fit into another, until we were in almost as great fear for her life as we had been for Annie's.

The man moved his head to show that he understood, and raised his hand to his throat and began pulling at his shirt, but the effort sent him off into a fainting-fit again.

"Jenny," said I to my wife, "do you remember the night I frightened you so and kissed you as you lay in a fainting-fit?"

She has grown terribly feeble, and has twice had fainting-fits like the one that changed my destiny.

Grandmamma had never had a fainting-fit; she would have found the idea too dreadful at that time."

That was before she had the fainting-fit.

For years afterwards he was liable to fainting-fits, had a wretched digestion, and was easily upset by hot rooms, late hours, and bad air.

He appeared to have recovered, and was even able to be present when the final sentence was pronounced against Conde; but on the 29th of November there was a fresh fainting-fit.

Sarah Grimké had always enjoyed such good health, and was so unaccustomed to even small ailments, that when a slight attack came in the beginning of August, 1873, in the shape of a fainting-fit in the night, she did not understand what it meant.

Eric feared that he would die, his fainting-fit continued so long, and from the helpless way in which one of his legs trailed on the ground he felt sure that he had received some dangerous hurt.

A friend related to me the particulars of a fainting-fit, during which her body remained senseless an unusually long time.

" What followed may be explained by the ecstatic state often experienced on coming out of a fainting-fit.

Several unforeseen circumstances had prevented thisEnrica's fainting-fit; the discussion that ensued upon it between Nobili and the old chamberlainall this had created delay, and afforded him an appropriate opportunity of requesting a private interview.

16 examples of  fainting-fit  in sentences